From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Interning Symbols Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:26:14 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258009787 28138 80.91.229.12 (12 Nov 2009 07:09:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:09:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 12 08:09:40 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N8ToJ-0007Av-4C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:09:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42658 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N8ToI-0001pK-Ie for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:09:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N8T8c-0000y7-9J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:26:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N8T8X-0000vY-Bl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:26:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41903 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N8T8X-0000vO-10 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:26:29 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:46420) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N8T8W-0003zB-B6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:26:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N8T8U-0002rZ-8w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:26:26 +0100 Original-Received: from c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.24.138]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:26:26 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:26:26 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-24-138.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Macintosh/20090812) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69687 Archived-At: Nordlöw wrote: > Is it possible to intern a symbol and make it have a property whose > value is a references to a another object like we do with setf()? Do you mean, does this work: (setq my-obarray (make-vector 1021 0)) (setf (get (intern "foo" my-obarray) 'some-property) (evaluates-to-some-object)) I don't know why it wouldn't: (require 'cl) (macroexpand (quote ...)) => (let* ((--cl-var-- (intern "foo" my-obarray))) (put --cl-var-- (quote some-property) (evaluates-to-some-object))) > If I want to copy a symbol along with all its 4 components into > another obarray do I have to manually copy (using get and set) the > value, function def and property-list? Yes. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA